J-fest!♪

As you should already know, on the 20th of October, Pop Kakumei participated to J-fest Halloween Edition. We met Kumi at the metro station early in the morning, as she had travelled from Québec city just to see us! Then, we went shopping a little to buy light sticks and some other things for the event. As everybody was here, I decided to do my birthday party earlier, so we went to a Mexican restaurant where they give you a sombrero and sing for you when it’s your birthday~!

At around 6pm, we went to Momo’s house to get ready. To be honest it was quiet stressful as we all wanted to be perfect for the occasion! We helped each other by doing our hair and sharing our makeup, Pop Kakumei works the best when we are all together! At around 9pm we were all ready and dressed up. Everyone tried to represent a different fashion style, from fairy kei, to cyber pop, cult party kei and even shironuri.

We arrived to the venue a little early, we were all excited and patiently waited for the meet and greet with Takuya Angel to start. He was really kind and a little shy~ We presented ourselves and introduced the group, as Nii speaks Japanese fluently and Jiji is studying really hard we were able to communicate with him.  There was also a booth for his brand with lots of interesting accessories and clothes.

During the night, we spent time with our friends, dancing, eating snacks and meeting new people. Not all the girls in Pop Kakumei enjoy dancing as much as I or Momo, but we all had fun. 

When we were really tired we came back to Momo’s place. After undoing our hair, removing our makeup and changing into our pyjamas, everybody sang happy birthday to me in different languages and we ate cake.  Pop Kakumei’s favorite way to eat a cake is to give each person a fork and just share the whole cake without cutting it! We don’t have pictures of this because at that time of the night we looked like mommies!

Because we bought VIP tickets for J-fest we were able to spend the next day with Takuya Angel, we went to a famous restaurant where they specialise in poutine, a typical French Canadian dish. After the delicious meal, we took a walk to the downtown to finally end up in chinatown as usual! We can’t help ourselves! 
Unfortunately we weren’t expecting to spend the day with such a guest, so we didn’t have any good outfits prepared…

To conclude, it was such an amazing weekend with lots of surprises and the best part is that the whole Pop Kakumei was together!  I hope we’ll get to see Kumi again soon!

Harajuku Meeting~☆

Two weeks ago, we went to Montreal's annual harajuku meeting! It is the second biggest harajuku event of the year, along with the St-Dolorès (lolita meeting) in spring.

 Everyone gathered at the nearest subway station, then we walked together to the park where the meeting was held. It was cold outside so we all had to wear big coats (we only took them off to take pictures).

Momo and Reiko had a great time with Pomme and took pretty pictures together~!

Before leaving, we went to an old church nearby to take our snaps.

We were happy to see our friends!

(Momo was doing weird faces as always) 

At the end of the day, we went to the Chinatown where we met Jiji and we had bubble tea together~

Meet POPKakumei ~ !!

Hello everyone, nice to meet you~!♪

We are Popkakumei, a harajuku ''fashion band" composed of 7 girls from Qc, Canada!

I am PopKakumei's Mochi and I'll be in charge of our first report after the opening of the website!

On august 3rd to 5th we all attended Montreal's annual Japanese pop culture convention, Otakuthon. Being all together for our first important event after the creation of the group, it felt like our official debut!

The weekend was so busy! Those who were there, you might have seen us at the Fairy Crash stand near the artists' alley's exit, where some of our members sold their creations!

We also attended Sunday's Japanese Fashion Show! We met and made friends with really interresting people. It was an amazing experience even though we were all very nervous but it turned out well and it was really fun!!!

While walking around the convention we had the pleasure to meet DJ Kami, the organizer of JFest, a japanese pop culture party event in Montreal. He interviewed some of us and we had the chance to talk with him about our passion and, maybe, plan future collaborations...?

All weekend long we hung out with our friends from Toronto, Peach and Candy, members of the idol group Pinku Project~!! They are so crazy but so kind and fun to be around!

 The pictures were taken by Candy, go take a look at her tumblr!

We took a lot of snaps, too:

See you soon ~ !!!